I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that.

Oil is dead, on its way to extinction.

We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves.

My mom spent every dollar she ever had on getting me modeling/acting classes when I was a kid. I'm really grateful for that foresight. She's brilliant, kind, and so loving as a mother. I was told a million times in a day that she loved me.

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

Nina Dobrev makes my job easy, its hard not to melt when she looks at you with those doe eyes.

I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.